The tone of the report is almost certain: Thursday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Giec) will publish an alarming report on climate change and land use. "It will show the strong influence of human activities on the quality of soil, with 72% of the soil under the influence of human activities", anticipates Europe 1 Matthieu Orphelin, deputy ex-Republic on the march of Maine-et-Loire .
The experts' reports, currently being finalized, should address many issues, such as those of agriculture, diets, deforestation ... All data available and updated for decision-makers. "All political leaders must better understand what science says," said the parliamentarian, former right hand of Nicolas Hulot. "These reports Giec follow one another and it is necessary that the policies take them in hand and hear the courses of action."
Waste, "huge waste"
"The solution is the development of an environmentally friendly agriculture," continues Matthieu Orphelin. "You have to eat less meat but more local and fight against food waste: today, up to 30% of the food produced goes to the trash.It is a huge waste."
For the MP, the central question is that of the awareness, among politicians, of the possibility of activity of many levers to preserve the soil. "Politicians must reinforce all their actions on all fields that will reduce the influence of man on soils.This report will be a great call for politicians to take these matters in hand. 'forbidden to put in place measures and actions much more ambitious than what we do.'
The withdrawal of the claimed bear in the Pyrenees: "Let's continue to dialogue"
A hundred mayors demanded Tuesday in Toulouse the withdrawal of the bear of the Ariège Pyrenees, in a context of high tensions after the multiplication of sheep attacks attributed to the plantigrade. On Europe 1, Matthieu Orphelin believes that we must "find the right ways to continue to preserve our biodiversity". "We have to invent new ways to live with the bear, we have not tried everything, let's keep talking and get out of this confrontation," he says.